Lila MacLellan/QUARTZ That’s what Claas Relotius, a journalist for Der Spiegel, Germany’s most prestigious newspaper, explained to an editor last week as his career came to a screeching halt. Relotius was referring to his years-long habit of writing stories that were sometimes partially, sometimes entirely invented, but always printed as fact. He faked quotes, made…
UNB, Dhaka The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday arrested a a man posing as a director of the commission on Tuesday. An ACC team detained the fake director Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury from the city’ Khilkhet area, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.
In the renowned city of United Kingdom named Bristol, a company named Coexist will be giving a temporary leave to their female workers during the time of their menstrual cycle. They organized a seminar on this so that they can set example and people around the world can have optimistic approach towards the menstrual cycle….
Desk Report Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have detained five suspected operatives of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh from Boraigram upazila of Natore early today. One of the detainees was identified as Jubayer Hossain, who was said to be the regional chief of the militant outfit, our Natore correspondent reports quoting Assistant Superin-tendent of Police…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The body of Awami League Presidium member and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, who passed away at a Thailand hospital on Thursday, was brought back home yesterday evening and he will be laid to eternal rest today, UNB reports. The mortal remains was flown back on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines…
Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman speaks to DOT : Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) should sever ties with Jamaat-e-Islami. BNP is a big political party, which enjoys huge popularity. BNP has ruled the country for many years. Jmaat-e-Islami is party convicted for war crimes. Many leaders of the party were executed, many others are serving different…
Sabah Mannan of DOT Earlier, there were no facilities in Bangladesh that could detect and diagnose all types of genetic diseases, including different cancers but thanks to the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), the country’s scientific examination has leveled up. Yeafesh Osman; Minister of science and technology inaugurated the laboratory located in…
DOT Desk BNP’s candidate for Shariatpur-3, Miah Nuruddin Apu was attacked yesterday during his election campaign in the area and left in a “critical state”, reports The Daily Star. He was campaigning in Gosairhat Upazila this afternoon when unidentified assailants pounced on him, a close associate said. Apu is being taken to Dhaka for better…
A merciless cold crippled the Midwest on Wednesday, halting planes and trains, shuttering schools and prompting officials in Detroit, Minneapolis and Chicago to open emergency warming centers for the homeless and vulnerable. The bitter weather was believed to be tied to the deaths of at least eight people, including a man thought to have collapsed…
Imran Khalid, Freelance columnist based in Karachi, Pakistan/Daily Sabah, Turkey Each election period in Bangladesh has produced something new and further added more twists to the already febrile and charged political atmosphere in the country and now the same is expected in the forthcoming national elections as well The evolution of politics in Bangladesh has…